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'five years after'. ADULESCENTULUS MILES: See n. on 21 quemquam senem. Miles here = gregarius miles. QUEM MAGISTRATUM: sc. quaesturam, to be understood from quaestor Cf. TUDITANO ET CETHEGO: when the praenomina of the consuls are given the names generally stand side by side without et; when they are omitted et is generally inserted. Cf. n. on 50 Centone Tuditanoque, etc.
It was for me he wrote: 'Fortunate senex, hic inter flumina nota, Et fontes sacros frigus captabis opacum. "And this as well: 'Fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestes, Panaque, Silvanumque senem!" "Nymphasque sorores!" finished Camors, smiling and moving his head slightly in the direction of Madame de Tecle and her daughter, who preceded them. "Quite to the point.
For my part, I more approve of a shorter style, and that comes more roundly off. He does, though, sometimes shuffle his parts more briskly together, but 'tis very seldom. I have myself taken notice of this one passage: "Ego vero me minus diu senem mallem, quam esse senem, antequam essem."
"We all grow timid and cautious as we get old, Mr. Penhallow." Then turning round to the young man, he slowly repeated the lines, "'Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda, vel quod Quaerit et inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti; Vel quod res omnes timide, gelideque ministrat' "You remember the passage, Mr. Bradshaw?"
That other Grecian licence is justly abhorred by our manners, which also, from having, according to their practice, a so necessary disparity of age and difference of offices betwixt the lovers, answered no more to the perfect union and harmony that we here require than the other: "Quis est enim iste amor amicitiae? cur neque deformem adolescentem quisquam amat, neque formosum senem?"
Equidem non modo eos novi qui sunt, sed eorum patres etiam et avos, nec sepulcra legens vereor, quod aiunt, ne memoriam perdam; his enim ipsis legendis in memoriam redeo mortuorum. Nec vero quemquam senem audivi oblitum, quo loco thesaurum obruisset.
MORIBUS BONIS ET ARTIBUS: for the order of the words cf. n. on 1 animi tui. IN VITA: 'in everyday life' ADELPHIS: Adelphi = αδελφοι, The Brothers; this play of Terence is still extant. DIRITAS: 'harshness of temper'; but Suet. Tib. 21 has diritas morum, and Varro scena quem senem Latina vidit dirissimum.
Si damnosa senem juvat alea, ludit et heres Bullatus, parvoque eadem movet arma fritillo. JUV. Sat. xiv. 4. If gaming does an aged sire entice, Then my young master swiftly learns the vice, And shakes in hanging sleeves the little box and dice. J. DRYDEN, jun.
HUIUS P. SCIPIONIS: 'the present P. Scipio'. So in 14 hi consules 'the present consuls'; Rep. 1, 14 Africanus hic, Pauli filius, and often. The P. Scipio who is meant here is not Africanus, but Nasica Corculum. FLAGRANTIS: 'all aglow'; so ardere studio in Acad. 2, 65. SENES: = cum senes essent, so senem below.
It was for me he wrote: 'Fortunate senex, hic inter flumina nota, Et fontes sacros frigus captabis opacum. "And this as well: 'Fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestes, Panaque, Silvanumque senem!" "Nymphasque sorores!" finished Camors, smiling and moving his head slightly in the direction of Madame de Tecle and her daughter, who preceded them. "Quite to the point.
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